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Subject: Re: Moderation: Why would someone stick their neck out?

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 07:07:30 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 09:49:09, jonathon smith wrote:

>On January 26, 2000 at 09:02:17, KarinsDad wrote:
>
>>On January 26, 2000 at 08:32:24, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>>>
>>>>Bella is banned. There is a lot of evidence that Bella is Chris, hence, Dann
>>>>thinks that Chris is banned. Chris' account is not banned.
>>>
>>>Perhaps not anymore, but it certainly was. According to Bruce, the password for
>>>Chris's account was changed and that's banning plain and simple. If you live
>>>with someone, and that person changes the lock and doesn't give you the key,
>>>that means you are no longer welcome.
>>>
>>>                                     Albert Silver
>>
>>Good point, but all of the information is not out. Chris was banned and then
>>unbanned (and then later, his alias' were banned). So, the lock was changed, but
>>changed back.
>>
>>KarinsDad :)
>
>Fascinating.
>
>ChrisW says he knows this much:
>
>1. He did not post since November 1997.
>
>2. In March 1998, he received notification of a ban in two ways.
>
>(a) From Enrique Irazoqui by email, using the word 'ban' that Hyatt now denies.
>(b) From Schroeder and co. by rgcc public post with the phrase "no longer
>welcome on CCC".
>
>3. To confirm the ban, ChrisW said he logged in twice that day to CCC using his
>original username and password combination. He said the server came up with an
>invalid password/username message.
>
>4. At the end of the Moreland, Amir Ban, Don Dailey period; ChrisW told me he
>was in email contact with the latter two moderators (Bruce Moreland having
>resigned already). The two moderators told ChrisW he could reapply for
>membership if he wanted. ChrisW said he told them that the minimum he would
>accept would be a reinstallation of the original password and username, since,
>in his (ChrisW's) view this password/username combination was 'illegally'
>deleted. Illegally meaning outside of the Charter of the CCC.

Tell your alter ego that he demanded the deletion of his password/username. We
kindly obliged.

Enrique

> Also they would
>have to remind him what the username/password actually was, since he had
>forgotten by then. Ban and Dailey refused to reinstate the original
>password/username, they said ChrisW should go through normal application
>procedures open to any person.
>
>Now you appear to be stating that the original password/username was reinstated
>at a later date, but without informing anybody. Specifically without informing
>ChrisW, and in the knowledge that ChrisW didn't know the password/username
>details anyway.
>
>Why and when were the password/username combination restored? Why was ChrisW not
>informed?
>
>Was Bruce Moreland informed? He appears to consider that ChrisW is banned by the
>method of password change.



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